| |
Hybrid Camry's Now Kentucky-Made
By Mark Clarkson
The first Kentucky-made hybrid Camry, which is based from the most famous family sedan, rolled off the assembly line last Thursday. This move, which serves as a great milestone to the Japanese automaker, is made to amass a bigger slice in the U.S. automotive market share.
Toyota Camry Hybrid was introduced in May 2006. It is equipped with potent Toyota Camry parts like the four-cylinder gasoline engine combined with electric motors to generate a peak of 187 horsepower (140 kW). Toyota Camry A/C condenser, and the entire heater/air conditioning unit, brakes and power steering used in the vehicle are all electric. Moreover, the car can run just by using the electric motors.
Production of Camry hybrid in Georgetown Toyota plant is fixed at 48,000 for this year. This will entitle customers the option of a midsize hybrid that offers better gas mileage than other compact vehicles. Camry hybrid is given a rating of 43/37 miles per gallon on highway/city. 2007 Camry hybrid is given a base price of $25,900.
Toyota expended $10 million to modify equipment and train workers to generate Camry hybrid at the Georgetown plant. Said plant employs approximately 7,000 workers to work on Solara and Avalon models, aside from Camry.
Toyota Camry hybrid is powered with a 147 horsepower four-cylinder engine and a 40 horsepower electric motor. The automaker revealed that the gasoline engines for the hybrid will now be manufactured at Georgetown plant. However, special components of the car will be transported from Japan.
As of last month, there are 21,430 units of Japan-made Camry hybrid sold in the United States. Toyota Prius, on one hand, outsells other hybrids that are gas-electric models. Toyota will be relying on car enthusiasts moving to fuel-saving cars. Furthermore, critics are saying that there is already an apparent big switch in favor of hybrids. This will redound to the benefit of automakers banking on said vehicles.
About the Author
Mark Clarkson is a 35 year old marketing consultant for a leading auto parts store. This native of Denver is also an offroad enthusiast.
| If you wish to add the above article to your website or newsletters then please include the "Article Source:http://www.in53.com/Automotive/Cars/7825.html" as shown above and make it hyperlinked. |
| Some other articles |
Focus Coup?Cabriolet Reflects Ford's New Vogue
Ford earlier conducted its preview debut of its sleek, convenient and practical new vehicle by the name Focus Coup?Cabriolet. Said preview was made at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show last February.Focus Coup?Cabriolet was developed i ...
Services On Alternative Fuel Spreads Out
Efforts to actually give out more information on alternative fuel seem to be expanding. One of the latest moves involves the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Institute, or the AFVI, working up a partnership with Clean Energy. And together ...
Execs Try Out Used Vehicles
We all do have that thought that those chief executive officers, those head honchos, and all those other high ranking people at companies do not really know what it is to be an ordinary person. And we all do know that when these p ...
| |
| |
|
|
|
